Category: A’s Track of the Day

Live version of the Springsteen song from the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978.

Brucie covers Part 3: From her 2002 album 1,000 Kisses.

Springsteen, Junkies-style. From 1994.

First in a short season of songs by Loose Windscreen performed by other artists. This is from 1978. And here’s another version by Robert Gordon and Link Wray. I read … Continue readingThe Pointer Sisters: Fire

Not often you get the good lady wife and myself plugging the same artist. This was recommended by reader Andy Marshall in response to a recent clip of Tony Joe … Continue readingSir Douglas Quintet: Mendocino

Mean guitar from June Millington on this 1972 clip, which features a lot of Fannying around before it gets going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZUqkPlUaQ

Great clip from 1975. Lee Brilleaux and I used to share the same butcher in Chalkwell, David Harrison, sadly now closed.

Another selection from the brilliant Richard Thompson tribute album Beat The Retreat.

Amazing period piece from something called Playboy After Dark, a programme hosted by the pipe-smoking Hugh Hefner and purporting to show a ‘party’ at his place with Bunny Girls on … Continue readingTony Joe White: Groupie Girl

Always had a soft spot for Lindisfarne, despite visiting Holy Island in July and being unable to see more than 3ft in the fog.